Justin Wohlstadter is the founder and CEO of Waldo, a New Orleans-based AI research platform that helps marketing agencies and brands get smart fast for pitches, brand strategy, and creative work. Before Waldo, he spent nearly a decade running Wonder (AskWonder.com), an on-demand human research service powered by thousands of analysts worldwide, and earlier co-founded BOLDstart Ventures, where he backed companies later acquired by Google, LinkedIn, Salesforce, and Akamai. A Harvard and Oxford graduate who wrote his master's dissertation on how the internet would reshape access to education, he has spent his entire career chasing one obsession: making it faster for a curious person to know more than they did a minute ago.
Waldo is an agentic brand intelligence platform that compresses the multi-week grind of brand research, competitive analysis, and strategy into minutes. Founded by Justin Wohlstadter, it pairs proprietary data integrations - social platforms, ad libraries, syndicated research - with 50+ structured workflows built for strategists. Agencies and brands give it a brand, a category, and an audience, and AI agents return recurring intelligence briefs on trends, ads, audience conversations, and competitor moves. Backed by a $10M Series A led by Footwork, Waldo already counts agencies like Havas, IPG, and Omnicom and brands like Conair and Kettle & Fire among its users.